Tonight I watched the last session of the QM Connect conference 2024 AI Lightning Talks (part 1). Dr. Geetanjali Soni works with NC Public Schools and works on the North Carolina Virtual Public School. The title of the session was “Leveraging AI to provide Instructional Support for Diverse Learners.” Soni emphasized that AI can help […]
Tonight I started watching the KBase Educators Orientation meeting from December 2024. Ellen Dow facilitated the session and shared resources from the KBase Educators group and handbook. Dow explained the structure of KBase narratives and how to join the KBase Educators group. The Educators Org has several narratives that can be copied. There are a […]
Tonight I watched Elisha M. Wood-Charlson, KBase User Engagement Lead, present at the LISA workshop. Wood-Charlson spoke about publishing with KBase and the “research data lifecycle.” The cycle of creating and managing data with FAIR principles in mind. Wood-Charlson noted that 2022 was declared the year of open science and mandates were created to promote […]
Tonight I started another KBase video. This was the September 18, 2024 “Introduction to KBase” webinar. Ben Allen from Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the presenter along with Ellen Dow and the KBase team. Allen described KBase as “a community-driven research platform for systems biology” and it has the tag line “empowering researchers by integrating […]
We have been using EPI2ME a lot lately and want to learn more about the new features. Tonight, I watched Sirisha Hesketh, Clinical Bioinformatician from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, present “EPI2ME everywhere” at London Calling 2024. They began with an overview of the workflows available: seventeen ranging from base calling and alignment to single-cell genomics. An […]
This morning the ASCN group hosted Maha Bali. It was a fun session and timely, as tonight I am watching the keynote of the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. It was really interesting to watch the session after having participated in one earlier. Bali shared slides at: https://bit.ly/altassessBali Bali starts with a check in to learn […]
Tonight I watched a recorded session entitled “The Connectivist Approach to Interactive Dialogue” and presented asynchronously during the TLC Lilly Online 2022 conference. The presenters were Kristen Carlson, an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Learning, and Andrew Burklund, both at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Their session focused on the use of connectivism and interactive dialogue […]
Samantha Ahern recorded a 20-minute session for the Open Ed 2021 conference. As an Open practitioner, Ahern participated in the Mozilla Open Leaders program and became a mentor for OE4BW. Ahem has experimented with H5P and “produced some guidance.” Sushumna Rao is the founder of h5pcatalogue.in and an ed-tech trainer. Rao developed and implemented an […]
It was a long and productive day! I ended by watching “OER Development: Working with a Collaborative Community to Create Ancillary Materials” from the Open Ed 2021 sessions. Alishia Huntoon was the presenter and shared the process of creating materials with their group. They defined OERs and the increasing number of new adoptions. OERs can […]
We finished the first week of classes! Tonight we watched the Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Entering Mainstream Adoption: How TUDelft and UTwente Collaboratively Embrace OER Through Grasple” presented by Pim Bellinga, co-founder of Gasple, and Pim Stuurman, mathematics content expert at Grasple. They spoke about how TU Delft and University of Twente moved from […]